ABOUT · AETHER DYNAMICS AI
SANTA ROSA, CA · 95403
CAGE: 14J48 · SAM.GOV ACTIVE
CLEARSKY · VECTOR · SENTINEL · SPACEPULSE
254/254 PLATFORM VALIDATION TESTS PASSED
PRE-SEED ROUND OPEN
Aether Dynamics AI

Building the safety, security, and compliance infrastructure
that commercial space operations require.

We build structured, intentional software for the environments where trust, audit trails, and regulatory alignment are not optional — they are the product. Our work is focused on commercial space operators and the federal procurement pathways that serve them.

To build compliance-first safety and security platforms for commercial space operations — and to make those systems available to the operators and agencies who need them before the industry learns the hard way why they were necessary.

Why This Company Exists

Aether Dynamics AI was built from direct experience in regulated, safety-critical environments — the kind where software failures have operational consequences, where compliance is a legal obligation rather than a marketing attribute, and where trust in the infrastructure cannot be assumed.

When the commercial space industry began scaling rapidly, the gap between operational complexity and available compliance infrastructure became clear. New FAA and DoD mandates were taking effect. Launch cadence was accelerating.

5,000+ SATELLITES PROJECTED ANNUALLY BY 2027

And there was no neutral safety reporting system for commercial operators. No ASRS equivalent. No space-specific CVE registry. No on-orbit endpoint detection. No pre-launch software certification gateway. No cross-operator intelligence layer with appropriate data-boundary controls.

We built one.

The platform we've built — CLEARSKY, VECTOR, SENTINEL, and SpacePulse — addresses the specific infrastructure gaps that commercial space operators face when operating under FAA Part 450/460, DoD cybersecurity requirements, and ITAR obligations simultaneously.

This is not a platform adapted from another industry. The data models, compliance frameworks, and trust architecture were designed from the ground up for the operational realities of commercial spaceflight.

254/254 platform validation tests passed across 11 containerized services. SAM.gov active. Federal procurement ready. Pilot discussions underway with commercial operators.

This is the closed-loop compliance infrastructure the commercial space industry has been missing — built in Santa Rosa, California.

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The Team

Daniel Walzer, Founder & CEO
Daniel Walzer
Founder · CEO · Lead Architect

Daniel Walzer designed and built the Aether Dynamics AI platform from the ground up — a platform architected in alignment with relevant NIST SP 800-53 control families, ITAR-enforced, multi-stack containerized architecture comprising 11 microservices across three Docker Compose stacks, with 254 of 254 platform validation tests passed against live infrastructure. He architected the security model, defined the inter-service contracts, implemented the fail-closed audit subsystem, and built the ITAR enforcement layer as a routing-time property — not a display-time filter. The platform is production-ready, SAM.gov active, and federal procurement registered.

That architecture came from a specific thesis: commercial space operators face a compliance and security infrastructure gap that cannot be solved with tools adapted from enterprise IT. CVSS scores don't model orbital debris risk. Enterprise SIEMs don't understand ITAR data boundaries. Aviation's ASRS has existed since 1976 — commercial space has no equivalent. Daniel built the space-native version: confidential safety reporting, space-specific CVE scoring, mission-correlated risk intelligence, and a unified operator terminal, connected as a single closed-loop control plane.

His background spans secure software engineering, regulated field operations, and compliance-driven systems — environments where audit trails and operational accountability are not optional, they are the baseline requirement. That operational context shaped every architectural decision in the platform: fail-closed semantics, append-only audit sinks, PII vault separation from publication paths, and compliance encoded in code rather than documentation.

Aether Dynamics AI is being built to give commercial space operators a clearer, faster, and more defensible way to manage safety, cyber exposure, and mission risk inside one operational environment.

info@aetherdynamicsai.com  ·  (707) 369-0101

Pre-Seed · Round open · Qualified investors may request materials via the contact form
Pre-Revenue · Pilot discussions active · Q2/Q3 2026 program open
Core Platform Built · 254/254 tests passing · 11 containerized services
SAM.gov Active · CAGE: 14J48 · UEI registered · Federal procurement ready
NASA SBIR Phase I · Targeted · Pre-seed close is the trigger
AFWERX Phase II · Space Force cyber use case · SENTINEL/VECTOR aligned

We are focused on commercial space operators as design partners, and on building the government and strategic procurement pathways that serve that market. If you are an operator, investor, or government agency — we'd like to talk.

info@aetherdynamicsai.com 707-369-0101 Santa Rosa CA, 95403

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